notmything's comments

A friend of mine moved to the Philippines with her husband (both Australian) to set up an offshore development shop doing NetSute ERP implementations for Australian NetSuite customers (usually mid-market retailers or manufactures).

She’s been there for 4 years now so it must be going well - her house is amazing there too.

So if one thing is true then other similar things must be true!!!

So I'm supposed to say this to my wife when I lose my job? The world will move on and I will struggle to pay the mortgage and pay for the kids school supplies all because of some rant on HN News. Jesus christ...

Nothing would ever get built if individual devs were held liable by the public.

The liability sits with your employer.

As a contractor - I had insurance to cover me up to a million pounds.

As a full time employee, the liability falls on my employer.

I'm not saying you should shrug it off - I'm saying you should't have your life ruined over a mistake in some code you wrote.

I'm yet to see a building collapse around me in my city - I see software fail all the time though - I think we are better at building tall buildings than we are building software.

Sounds good in principle but if I lose my job tomorrow are you going to guarantee this stuff for me and my family?

Sounds dangerous - mistakes happen - will I get thrown under the bus by the media if a bug in my code causes an accident that no QA process could have reasonably picked up on?

Nope - alternative is to have a work from home culture and local community culture.

I live in one too - if we spread people out a bit more into localised communities and make work from home culture a real thing, all the pollution and lifestyle issues you get from high density housing and everyone having to work in the same few square miles would no longer be a problem.

I see one car accident on the sydney harbour bridge delay thousands of parents from getting home before their children's bed times - it's just not the right way to live, no wonder everyone is depressed and family units are struggling.

I live in high density housing - it's like being a caged hen compared to the freedom I had being brought up as a child in the countryside. The noise, the pollution, the high house prices. Not good.

Yes they should - high density housing and everyone having to commute to the same few square miles in the middle of a densely populated area is one of the biggest scams of our time.

Yet for me it's provided every single job I've ever had except my first straight out of University.

RE: 300 days.

Not always true, I took 6 month break from a large consulting firm - they have thousands of consultants so you can take a break without killing the company but obviously they want as many consultants billing hours as possible.

I work in ecommerce consulting - most of my clients take CC info on their site, the forms on the checkout POST (over SSL) to the PSP who then return a token to the site, all future transactions use the token.

Most people don't want to bounce customers to a third party site for payment, it really hurts conversions.

Typical small minded HN user, the cost of an employee does not begin and end with salary.

What on earth am I reading?

  One thing I’ve noticed since moving to San Francisco is that my cohort 
  in the tech world doesn’t talk that much about the industry’s past.

How is the above different in any other industry? I don't hear my fellow consultants talking about the history of consulting, I don't hear my programme manager wife and her programme manager friends talking about the history of programme management etc.

Waffle

The comments on this story are really reflective of the kind of people on HN - no idea what's going on with the bigger picture - if it's not completely dev focussed then it's stupid and wrong...... Sad

What have half of your points got to do with anything?

Not knowing who you live around is because that's not within the culture, if your life was based around where you live rather then where you work (and was the same for everyone) I'm sure that would change.

Your whole point about going for drinks or inviting people round is irrelevant; the point is people will be able to build local friend groups rather than work friend groups.

"Whatyagonna do? Shift your whole life around just to try and avoid that?"

Well, my whole life gets flipped around everytime I can't et home to my kids before they sleep because of an incident on the tube or the roads.

I think you mostly missed my point - you looked at your life today and decided that working from home won't work for you - you're completely ignoring all of the issues with central working locations.

Someone claiming these are my problems is nonsense; a lot of people feel the same; we are in a mental health crisis and families are under massive strain because fathers are away from their children for so long. Nobody is saying that you have to change but a lot of people are saying that the current system is causing serious issues to living standards.

Your comment about having to shift your whole life around is unreasonable and shows you haven;t thought about this outside of your situation. Every father I speak to, every couple that can't afford a house near work that I speak to, they all agree. Housing crisis, family crisis, mental health crisis; they are all heavily contributed to by this issue.

I used to be 22 and living in shoreditch, I didn't care about these issues back then either. When I don't get home in time to see my kids before bed tonight because some idiot crashes their car and delays thousands of people, I'll just say to my wife WHATYAGONNA DO!??? Can't be flipping my life around!!!

cultural change required. London is busy and expensive because people need to be there, if they didn't it wouldn't be!

Agree - I've been thinking about what the city would be like if all cars (except taxis) were banned during rush hour. I'm struggling to see how it would lead to anything but a better public transport network and a better standard of living for most people that need to commute during busy hours.